FBI Doing Gun Roundup To Try To Solve Tom Wales Murder

[TallPine]

Excuse me, but does this mean that the next time someone gets shot with a gun in .45ACP caliber that the fbies are going to start going around and picking up all the 1911s and the clones and checking them?

I think you're catching on ...

 

[Jeff White]

It seem to me that this action is so far over the edge of what is "legal" as to boggle the imagination.

It in no way shape or form is over the edge of being legal. People, cars, trucks, boats (anything you care to name) that may be associated with a crime are all checked out. It's totallly on the up and up. It is over the edge of stupidity. Talk about grasping at straws how many thousands of these barrels were shipped all over the country? The number of manhours they are spending running down these barrels is insane. Either that or there were only a few hundred sold, making this a much more reasonable task. Still to think that anyone who would do such a professional hit, would hang onto evidence like that barrel is stretching things a lot.

I find it odd that they called a gunowner in Virginia about a crime that occurred in Washington state.

You don't suppose it's politically motivated in that if they found the barrel by this method, they could go before congress and say, "If we only had a national ballistic fingerprint database, we could have found the murderer in days." Think how much more funding a National Ballistic Fingerprint Database could bring to the FBI.

Jeff

 

[Master Blaster]

News Flash for the FBI: Gun barrels dont have unique fingerprints like people do.

1. The print can be easily changed with sandpaper.

2. since many barrels are made from the same cutter, which leaves a negative impression of the cutter on the barrel, many barrels made on the same day will have an Identical fingerprint.

3. The person who did this crime would have gotten rid of the firearm anyway so they are just harrassing law abiding citizens.

The FBI should know all this stuff, and so will any ballistics expert they employ.

They just want to go around and eyeball everyone to see if someone will confess or act guilty it seems to be their MO these days. JMHO

 

[foghornl]

Metal polish, 10 minutes and a dremel tool = No Match

 

[Jeff White]

What makes you think that an bureaucrat out to increase his budget cares if the ballistic fingerprint program would accomplish anything?

Since when was it a requirement for a progam to actually be viable for it to be implemented?

All I was saying is that I can see Chuckie Schumer, DiFi or Dick Durbin getting a hold of this case in a press conference and using it to push for their new defacto registration scheme...Ballistic Fingerprinting.

Think about it, it's a win/win situation for them. The FBI gets more money, more technicians, more supervisory positions, probably at least one more supergrade civil service position....the anits get defacto registration and we get to pay for it all.

Jeff

 

[makarov1]

Brilliant detective work by the FBI! Our hard-earned tax dollars are at work, with the FBI searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack, when the needle they are searching for is probably either buried in a remote wooded area or at the bottom of a cold lake. Given the fact that a makarov sells for $180 retail tops, the suspect is extremely unlikely to keep the weapon in his possesion. What the Feds don't realize is that when you fire .380 out of a 9.2 mm barrell, you get really poor accuracy and a short barrel life. .380 will damage a 9.2 mm chrome-lined barrel in a relatively short amount of time, hence changing the lands and grooves that will alter any type of "fingerprint". Great work Federal Government! Let's invent new and more creative ways to waste more tax money. The lead agents are too ignorant to realize that "ballistic fingerprinting" is junk science invented by the Million MoM Marchers. How many ways are there to say stupid? I know of one way.


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